HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the right to use the Nokia brand on phones, has raised $100 million of funding intended to boost growth, it said on Monday. Having sold about 70 million Nokia phones and generated sales of 1.8 billion euros (1.6 billion pounds) in its first year, 2017, HMD said it plans to expand its Nokia smartphone range and to double sales channels in key markets this year. The fundraising round was led by Ginko Ventures, a fund owned by Jean-Francois Baril, a long-serving former senior vice president at Nokia. …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
